Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Parker

I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.

Segolene Royal

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Mickey Sumner

I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.

Harmony Korine

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

Mario Van Peebles

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

I have a beautiful family. I want to be here, for my family.

Caitlyn Jenner

I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.

Adam Scott

If I'm going to be away from my family, I'd rather it be working with my friends.

Jack Skille

I felt like I was with family again.

Jack Gleeson

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

I feel like these people are my family you know, so I do as much as I can for my family right here and that's why I'm open.

Rachel Platten

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

I can't really look into the future. My family has done a lot of farming on this land. It's what we know.

Richard Anderson

I can't imagine what the family must have felt.

Fred Hoiberg

If I was a rookie, without a family, I'd probably be playing right now. But my family is the most important thing to me. I think it would be selfish for me to go and play if there was any risk involved.

Jean Paul

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jerry Reed

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Jerry Seinfeld

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

Jeff Foxworthy

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Jeff Foxworthy

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

James Agee

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

James A. Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Christopher Lasch

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Christopher Lasch

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Gary Vaynerchuk

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Hillary Clinton

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Evelyn Waugh

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Esther Hicks

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

Erma Bombeck

I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

Erma Bombeck

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.